SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Hardware,Software, & Maintenance
- Notice Date
- 4/24/2012
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 334111
— Electronic Computer Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, P. O. Box 1450 - Mail Stop 6, 600 Dulany Street, MDE, 7th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450
- ZIP Code
- 22313-1450
- Solicitation Number
- DOC44PAPT1209015
- Archive Date
- 5/24/2012
- Point of Contact
- Sylvia G Van Dyke, Phone: 571-272-6568
- E-Mail Address
-
sylvia.vandyke@uspto.gov
(sylvia.vandyke@uspto.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- DOC44PAPT1209015
- Award Date
- 4/24/2012
- Description
- DOC44PAPT 1209015 - Hardware/Software Licenses/MIPS/Maintenance - Unisys - The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) intends to award a sole source purchase order to Unisys Corporation, Unisys Way, Blue Bell, PA, 19424, in the amount of $3,059,414.55 to replace hardware and software that will replace aging Unisys ClearPath Plus Libra Model 585 and 595 servers currently used by the USPTO. The replacements are Unisys ClearPath Plus Libra Model 750 servers. The total cost for the base year for hardware, software, maintenance and four (4) one-year options for maintenance is $3,059,414.55. The statutory authority permitting this procurement to occur with other than full and open competition is: USPTO's PTAG authority (35 U.S.C. §2(b)(4)(A) which exempts the USPTO from the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA)) and 41 U.S.C. §253 (c) (1) - one responsible source. Under the circumstances described herein, the maximum reasonable competition standard has been met. Also, under CICA, from which the USPTO is exempt, there is only one responsible source that will satisfy agency requirements. The USPTO owns and operates a Unisys ClearPath Plus Libra Model 595 server for production purposes. This server runs the MCP/AS operating system. Approximately 600 Unisys Extended COBOL programs and 100 batch jobs (scripts) currently run on this server to support the Trademarks operation. The USPTO is in the process of migrating these applications off of this server to an entirely different architecture; a migration. Unisys, however, will only license the 595 server model through 11/30/2013 due to the age of this model, which will not give the USPTO enough time to complete the migration. This means that updated replacement hardware and software that can support the existing applications need to be acquired in the interim. Only Unisys sells this type of hardware and licenses the software on a proprietary basis; therefore, this order can only be placed with one source: Unisys Corporation. As for future plans to permit competition, this will be possible after the USPTO completes its migration of all applications off of the Unisys ClearPath platforms and migrates to an open service architecture. No solicitation will be issued as a result. Unisys is the hardware and software developer, and is the only source for the proprietary software licenses for the Unisys ClearPath Libra Plus Model 750.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 600 Dulany Street., Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450, United States
- Zip Code: 22313-1450
- Zip Code: 22313-1450
- Record
- SN02729971-W 20120426/120424235627-69b5089e78c42c3bc88a98994c6ffbec (fbodaily.com)
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